Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Write a poem about a grand building.
Castles, stately homes, even shopping centres might inspire you to think about architecture and age.
Writings
Itâs just a castle the people say itâs old and weird another says but this castle has secrets and and pain in it one of war love and betrayal oh how shameful it is to look but it is just a castle so theses nothing to do just learn from this and remember it doesnât look as it seems...
tw: religion âď¸
My dress is wrinkled from months of disuse
The footprints I left here long ago have faded now
I am a moth in a butterfly sea
Standing out though I be rusted and brown
Is there room for me in these walls?
Iâve changed shape since last I fit here
I recount verses memorized in youth
Fighting to dispel this awful fear
He is mighty to make a place for me
_All those with clean ha...
Nothing of the library was terrifying in the sense her mother described. The entry door was carved with flowers and vines, coated in golden shimmer. The arch at the very front read, âwelcome to the Willis Wallsâ, with fading blue-grey paint. The building was old, but not grimy and decayed like she had expected.
Emilianas motherâa woman who knew very much of their small town, would always tell he...
Chandelier swinging
Merrymen singing
Stairs in ivory and ebony
Everything you would dream opulence to be
Waiters with hors dâoeuvres
Seeing only the richest people youâve heard
Outside pillars of white
The area around, an aristocrats delight
Out front a large lake
Not even a leaf to take
Manicured grass
Nobody dressed crass
In front horses and buggy
Cool breeze negates the muggy
What a wonder...
Dead at the center
A cigar box grand edifice
Chrome shined relic drowned
By zeros and ones
I walk these burnt umber tiles
Under the blueness of fluorescents
Through jungles of dumb canes
Tip-toeing around ghosts of Orange Julius
From big boxes half empty
Past shadow boxes of retail past
Side stepping kiosk eruptions,
Searching (no I donât want a shoe shine)
Questing (gummy grapefruit yes pleas...
This one wonât surprise you
This homage has been done countless times
By thousands others
Yet you will find it sincere
She grows from the ground
Like an inverted plant
With bones of metal
And no leaves at all
You can see her from afar
But her majesty only appears from near
Even more from under it
She is so tall and magnificent
Some have tried to copy her
To create smaller versions
But nothing c...
Tall and elegant
Raising above all
View of the future
Nothing so small
Strong and stable
Built to withstand
Solid and able
Sink in quicksand
Withered yet yielding
Always to stand
Skyscraper building
Reaching Devine hand
Windswept and leavened
A beautiful sight
Elevators to heaven
Glistening sunlight
TessađŚ...
The grandest of buildings
One built only for gods
A temple of such majesty
Only the finest material
Gold, emeralds, diamonds and silver
Only for the one true god
We adorn the building in the lavish materials
Yet we live in rags
The priest live with fine clothes
We live like paupers
But god will provide for all our needs
The building is for the true god
Or perhapsâŚ.
Itâs the temple of t...
thousands of notes
were learned here.
degrees with honors
were earned here.
the days were long,
spent in song;
sonatas would soar
along the fourth floor,
the midnight oil
was burned here.
years have I aged
since I played on this stage
âŚyet it isnât strange
to return here....